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John Acton Quotes

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Liberty is the prevention of control by others  (John Acton Quotes) The greatest men, you can quote for everything  (John Acton Quotes) Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion  (John Acton Quotes) Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will  (John Acton Quotes) The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern  (John Acton Quotes) By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion  (John Acton Quotes) The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition  (John Acton Quotes) To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice  (John Acton Quotes) The idea that religious liberty is the generating principle of civil, and that civil liberty is the necessary condition of religious, was a discovery reserved for the seventeenth century  (John Acton Quotes) Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good  (John Acton Quotes)